Gender Studies 333M - Nature and Gender

This course will focus on portrayals of women in nineteenth- through mid-twentieth-century America, particularly in the context of nature and landscape. We will explore how women, often objectified in visual images of the period, appropriated established devices or developed new images and structures to represent womanhood in their own terms. Texts will include selected poetry, sketches, autobiographical essays or memoirs, short stories, novels, paintings, films, and photography.

This course is open to Juniors and Seniors. Prereq: 8 credits in Gender Studies